RACES: Passing

Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years
executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain
that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of
Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne
groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white
man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned
Negroes disappear  people whose absence cannot be explained by death
or emigration. Nearly every...